Orbiting Observer by exodus/emprime

Conspiracy The Custslinger was a DJ. His real name was Khari Stewart. When Khari decided to brandish the mic and share his mind with others using his mutant powers of rhyming, his first emcee name was Exodus. Years later, Khari recorded a series of cryptic speech patterns on beats by LBA crew member Max Prime. Those patterns were rediscovered when Khari Stewart passed on from our world to the next. One of Exodus' mutant powers besides ripping mics was making friends. He left shards of personal rapport, artful endeavors, and beautiful experiences with every person he spent time with on this earth. And while various demons hid within his shadow his entire life trying to lead him this way and that, they were no match for Khari Stewart, who grabbed those demons by the reins of their influence and tamed their nature into his art making process. I was one of Khari's friends, and he left me a shard of his life, his personality. One half of it is a recollection of good times together echoing within my mind, and the other half is on a disk of songs that he left for me. He left similar shards in the form of precious memories and songs with so many other friends, artists, and family to cherish, each glimmering, each one-of-a-kind. With the power of AI vocal extraction technology (which Khari predicted 10 years earlier, often deleting his masters once songs were completed), emprime recovers Conspiracy's voice and creates an audio sculpture of the person who demonstrated to me how to love and show love to hip hop music and culture more than I ever did before. For Conspiracy's very first post-humous album, I re-crown him as EXODUS, his original emcee name from 1996. A well-known biblical figure-of-speech meaning freedom from domination/subjugation, journey away from enslavement/exploitation, or to leave discrimination/racism behind. I would have loved to ask him if the moniker was inspired by Bob Marley and the Wailers' mega hit record of the same name. Khari presented to me who he was, without political correctness. From mundane topics, such as his top comic super heroes, to his favorite martial arts and horror flicks, to his love for the mysterious and benevolent Most High, and of course his certainty that alien angels exist in kingdoms on the other side of black holes. He also relays his final message, that of 4+elemental hip hop arts community unity, universal peace and prosperity to all humans and aliens alike, and Rastafarian Wisdom and African Ancestral Power for the next entire Epoch... better yet Eon. A final loving message to his friends, his family, his people, and to all sentient lifeforms of our dimension. To all, he shares his heart and soul. A motive only trumped by his everlasting feelings towards the very first love of his life (hint: see the vinyl songlist).

Bland-ish Hikikomori Hop for the masses, and Degenerate Prairie Punk Hop for the strung out. For the memories, dawg.

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